Asset-or-Nothing Call
Computes the price of an asset-or-nothing call: it delivers the asset itself if the price finishes above the strike, and nothing otherwise. It's the sibling of the cash-or-nothing option, and together they decompose the plain Black-Scholes call — a call equals exactly an asset-or-nothing minus a strike's worth of cash-or-nothing. The price is simply S·N(d1). Enter the spot price, the strike, the interest rate, the volatility and the term.
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Asset-or-Nothing Call
Computes the price of an asset-or-nothing call: it delivers the asset itself if the price finishes above the strike, and nothing otherwise. It's the sibling of the cash-or-nothing option, and together they decompose the plain Black-Scholes call — a call equals exactly an asset-or-nothing minus a strike's worth of cash-or-nothing. The price is simply S·N(d1). Enter the spot price, the strike, the interest rate, the volatility and the term.
You get the asset, or you get nothing
The asset-or-nothing option is one of the two fundamental binary pieces. At expiry it has a simple verdict: if the asset finishes above the strike, you receive the asset itself; if it finishes below, you receive nothing. There's no proportional payout, just full delivery or empty hands.
Its beauty appears when paired with its sibling, the cash-or-nothing. A plain Black-Scholes call is exactly an asset-or-nothing minus a cash-or-nothing that pays the strike. In other words, the classic call is nothing more than receiving the asset if it rises, minus paying the strike in that same scenario. Decomposing options this way is one of the most elegant ideas in the theory.
Enter the spot price, the strike, the interest rate, the volatility and the term. The tool returns the asset-or-nothing price, which is simply the asset price multiplied by N(d1). Note that this N(d1) is exactly the delta of a plain call, which connects the two at a deep level.
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Digital Call (Cash-or-Nothing)
Computes the price of a cash-or-nothing digital call option: it pays a fixed amount if the asset finishes above the strike, and nothing otherwise. The price is the discounted payout multiplied by the risk-neutral probability of finishing in the money, Q·e^(−rT)·N(d2). It's the purest form of a binary bet and the building block of many exotic structures. Enter the spot price, the strike, the interest rate, the term, the volatility and the payout.
Asset-or-Nothing Put
Computes the price of an asset-or-nothing put: it delivers the asset itself if the price finishes below the strike, and nothing otherwise. It's the downside counterpart of the asset-or-nothing call, and together they always sum to the asset's value, because one or the other always pays. The price is simply S·N(−d1). Enter the spot price, the strike, the interest rate, the volatility and the term.
Cash-or-Nothing Put
Computes the price of a cash-or-nothing put: it pays a fixed amount if the asset finishes below the strike, and nothing otherwise. It's the downside version of the digital option, the complement of the cash-or-nothing call. The price is the payout discounted and multiplied by the risk-neutral probability of the asset finishing below the strike, Q·e^(−rT)·N(−d2). Enter the spot price, the strike, the interest rate, the term, the volatility and the payout.
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